Were it not for the fact that the street name signs might just be readable, I suspect there wouldn’t be many readers who could recognise the location of this photograph.

Yet, it is not so long ago since these buildings were still standing – and they were not far from Leicester city centre’s busy Granby Street!

We are looking at the crossroads between Albion Street and Dover Street in a photo from the Leicester Group of the Victorian Society’s picture archive, by Dennis Calow.

Today, the photographer would be standing in the grounds of Dover House, a large flats complex built around 30 years ago.

But when this scene was captured, sometime in the late 1960s or early 70s, the road in the foreground, known as Albion Hill, went all the way to Waterloo Street (which itself, disappeared in the 1970s with the creation of Waterloo Way).

There is still a section of Albion Street, off Waterloo Way, and this is known as South Albion Street, but it no longer connects with Albion Street, as it did when this photo was taken.

The building on the far side of the road looks rather ecclesiastical and was in fact St John’s Infant School, a role it fulfilled as early as 1885, according to my Wright’s Directory of Leicester for that year.

It was still serving that purpose in 1928, but by 1932, it had become a leather factor’s warehouse.

St John the Divine Church was further along Albion Street and is still standing – converted into flats – on the corner of South Albion Street and Waterloo Way.